Saudi minister calls for private sector funding for giga-projects

Saudi Arabia’s Investment Minister said on Tuesday it was time for the kingdom's wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, and the government to step back and allow the private sector to help develop the country's ambitious giga-projects slated for...

One goal. Two journeys. Endless grit

Martin Camp and his team at NIL Africa. Martin Camp is a man with two formidable goals – both fuelled by grit, discipline and vision. As Managing Director of NIL Africa, a provider of learning solutions for the technology industry, he’s driving a...

NamWater refutes environmental risk claims over Rundu purification plant upgrade

Staff Reporter THE Namibia Water Corporation (NamWater) has dismissed claims that the upgrade of the Rundu Purification Plant poses environmental risks, emphasising that the facility is a water treatment plant—not a wastewater facility. This comes...

Sage Intacct launches-best-in class cloud finance software for mid-sized businesses in the UAE

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES & SOUTH AFRICA – African Media Agency – 23 October 2025 – Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched Sage Intacct in the United Arab...

Miners demonstrate in Swakop

Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) members, together with affected employees of Beifang Mining Technology Services, held a demonstration in Swakopmund yesterday to protest against ... If you are an active subscriber and the article is not showing,...

Acquisition of option to buy Lepidico’s interest in Karibib project

International Lithium Corp. is pleased to announce, further to its announcement on 9th September 2025, that on 24th October 2025, Lepidico met all the drawdown conditions for completion of its secured loan from ILC and that this has now been...

Ces châteaux africains vous feront oublier Versailles (le n°3 va vous choquer)

Je ne vais pas vous mentir, l’Europe possède des châteaux magnifiques, mais l’Afrique cache des trésors architecturaux époustouflants qui méritent largement votre attention. Ces forteresses africaines racontent des histoires fascinantes tout en...

The Angolan government intends to buy out a controlling stake in De Beers

AK&M 27 October 2025 17:55 The Angolan government has offered to buy out a controlling stake in De Beers from British Anglo American Plc in an effort to preserve the independence of one of the world's largest diamond mining companies. This is...

How The 8th Administration Can Create Jobs And Prosperity For The Nation

By: Daniel Hooft On the 23rd and 24th of October, Her Excellency the President will host Namibia’s inaugural Public-Private Forum. The desired outcome is to formulate and implement policies that accelerate economic activity and job creation....

‘Mass whale and dolphin sighting at Walvis Bay signals healthy ocean’ – Marine experts 

Renthia Kaimbi A large group of whales and dolphins seen off the coast of Walvis Bay over the weekend has been described as a sign that marine life feels at home in Namibian waters. According to Dr Hilkka Ndjaula of the Sam Nujoma Marine and...

Massive Meth Bust Highlights South Africa’s Growing Drug Crisis

An unfamiliar, chemical-like odor wafted from a farm in the tiny, rural eastern South African town of Volksrust. Suspicious residents alerted authorities, who raided the farm in mid-September and uncovered a crystal methamphetamine laboratory and...

Why Zimbabwe missed Africa’s top 100 banks list for the second year

Finance in Africa Zimbabwe is among the two African nations — alongside Zambia — that are again absent from the Top 100 African Banks 2025 list, according to African Business Magazine. The annual ranking, which measures banks’ financial strength...

Economic analyst Ngoma offers to train financial experts on how to implement currency board administration 

Thomas Ngoma * All they have to do is to agree to form an implementation team and I will guide the rest step by step to answer all their questions for the team to be fully trained up on it * Malawi used the system before attaining Independence. We...

DAILY OBSERVER | Confused and contradictory: Government’s mixed signals on jobs must stop

The Namibian government must understand this once and for all: jobs are not political slogans to be thrown around at convenience, they are a matter of national survival. Every mixed message, every contradictory pronouncement, and every vague...

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The Ministry of Health and Social Services has declared an mpox outbreak in Namibia after confirming the country’s first case at Swakopmund on Friday. The case has been linked to recent cross-border travel within the Southern African Development...

ACUC calls on African states to vote against economic blockade on Cuba 

By Laudia Sawer Tema, Oct. 28, GNA-The AfriKan Continental Union Consult (ACUC) has called on African states to vote firmly once again against the United States economic blockade on Cuba. In a statement signed by Dr. Benjamin Anyagre Aziginaateeg,...

New MoU to boost local energy talent pipeline

Namibian youth will soon benefit from academic and industrial training initiatives targeting the imminent development of a local upstream oil and gas sector. This is after Namibia’s Petroleum Training and Education Fund (PetroFund) jointly...

On Cue with Kafui Dey: When things go wrong on stage: How to recover like a pro

– Every MC knows the show must go on—even when the lights go off Every Master of Ceremonies has lived through that nightmare moment: the microphone dies mid-sentence, the PowerPoint freezes on the company logo, or the bride’s uncle decides he’s...

10 African Climate Change Projects Secure Major Funding

The National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa is pleased to announce the culmination of its funding call under the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA) initiative with 10 transdisciplinary research projects selected for...

Is oil a panacea for South Africa’s ailing economy?

Oil exploration and production has the potential to create tens of thousands of jobs and set South Africa’s ailing economy on a trajectory of faster growth and industrialisation. That, at least, is the assessment of a study by FTI Consulting that...